Im very happy right now because I just got paid… and they say games are a waste of time. Ha! Ive been in Second Life about 3 years and my income has steadily grown. But it was never my main focus.. anyways.
This German lighting company called Osram held a contest within the virtual world of Second Life. It was called the 1 Million Linden Dollar contest. Participants were asked to invent a new light concept for Osram. So myself and a good friend of mine decided to enter. There were four rounds to the contest.
First was for written entries that described the basic concept of your invention. Out of those entries 250 were chosen for the next round.
Second round they asked you to build your concept inside SL. They offered building and scripting assistance to everyone. I recieved regular kind inquiries from the contest manager Phar Hand asking if I needed anything.
Both myself and my friend were accepted to the next round. They threw all of the winners a great party to get us excited for the next round. Unfortunatly my friend Delena Paine and I were placed on different teams during this round.
Third round was announced at another party. My team had made it but my friends had not. 
Still she was very excited for me. All my friends encouraged me as my team mates and I worked together on the final round. Coordination was difficult with everyones different time zones but we managed.
I created a group to help keep us in order, but Fleche was really amazing at gathering every scattered piece of information and putting it together. We worked together until the very last moments!
Finally the contest end came. The winners for the contest were announced on Monday April 28th, 2008 at 11:15 game time. We each had our pictures taken for each team. Team Orange and Team Blue. We all worked very hard. I was so nervous because I know that the other team had worked just as hard as we had. Those 15 minutes felt like an hour!
But my team Orange were announced as the winners!
We were so pround and happy as we walked to the stage and stood on the winners circle for all to see! Two teammates missed it do to work, I wish I could have seen them again to thank them “in person”.
So that is the exciting news for today.
